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5 reasons the already obscene national security budget is bigger than it looks
Eric Stoner
The $495.6 billion on the books for 2015 doesn't account for the billions we'll be spending on homeland security
4 ways the Ukrainian situation is going to make things harder in the Middle East
Noga Tarnopolsky
For starters, progress in Syria seems all but impossible for the foreseeable future
New weird order: 21st century defying everything history taught us
Tom Engelhardt
The world's lone superpower is in decline, but no other state seems poised to take advantage. What's going on?
Thomas Friedman, supreme toady: Also, shameless!
Patrick L. Smith
Shame on the Times and other media for falsely spinning Ukraine events. We now await the inevitable U.S. betrayal
“The Americans” recap: The danger of a double life
Elliott Holt
In the season opener, Elizabeth and Phillip start to see how their KGB work could threaten their family
When Republicans hated the troops
Steven Casey
Conservative rhetoric about honoring our soldiers conceals their staggering disregard for the loss of life in Iraq
“Hipster” Christianity: 9 hilarious attempts by the religious right to be cool
Alex Henderson
They want so badly to be hip — and yet they fail so spectacularly
NSA, GCHQ targeted WikiLeaks network
Natasha Lennard
U.K. and U.S. governments used surveillance and political pressure against publishers of government abuses
7 of the most memorable Olympic protests in history (and one that could be)
Jessica Phelan
Russia's laws against "homosexual propaganda" have made this year's Games a target for activism. It's not the first
Dick Cheney’s dark legacy: It’s his world, we’re just living in it
Mark Danner
Torture, secrecy, military adventurism. Dick Cheney, more than anyone else, set the course for America after 9/11
The secret sauce of Russian autocracy: Vodka (and lots of it)
Mark Lawrence Schrad
In Russia, vodka has long been a tool for authoritarian control — and Russians are paying for it dearly
Taliban: We’re holding this American military dog hostage
Sarah Wolfe
Though the nationality of the dog is disputed, a video shows a confused pup surrounded by heavily armed militants
How Richard Nixon reinvented American warfare
Steven Casey
As the public soured on Vietnam, Nixon rebooted U.S. military strategy — and paved the way for Iraq and Afghanistan
Love, sex, Iraq: A roadside bomb won’t kill my marriage
Kayla Williams
My love was severely wounded in Iraq. The military, VA and other civilians didn't seem to care. We fought anyway
The drug war’s ugly truth: “Criminalization is inherently incompatible with human rights”
Aaron Cantú
Human Rights Watch warns that the War on Drugs is only making things much, much worse
You’re being lied to about Afghanistan: The terrorists there include us
Patrick L. Smith
When we treat civilians as collateral damage, no wonder Hamid Karzai trusts us as little as the U.S. trusts him
“He got people singing”: Remembering Pete Seeger with my dad
Julia Carrie Wong
Seeger's music and politics were about elevating the collective over the individual, a spirit too often lost today
GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham: The world is “literally about to blow up”
Elias Isquith
The South Carolina senator and inveterate hawk warns of a coming geopolitical apocalypse
The best of the worst: Right-wing Twitter reacts to the State of the Union
Elias Isquith
According to the right, Obama's a socialist, a communist, a dictator — and he lost the Iraq War, too
Here’s the full text of President Obama’s 2014 State of the Union address
Elias Isquith
President urges Congress to make 2014 "a year of action"
Carl Hiaasen on Jennifer Weiner: “I see the point she is trying to make, but the empirical evidence suggests otherwise”
Daniel D'Addario
The author talks to Salon about his new nonfiction collection, and whether gender has influenced his career
Noam Chomsky is right: It’s the so-called serious who devastate the planet and cause the wars
Greg Grandin
Fear the sober voices on the New York Times Op-Ed page and in the think tanks -- they're more dangerous than hawks
A soldier’s exorcism: “He could feel hot Jesus blood coming down over his face”
Jennifer Percy
Caleb lost eight friends in Iraq. When he returned home, they haunted him -- as did a demon he called the Destroyer
5 years after Obama’s first drone strike, US still avoiding responsibility for civilian caualties
Kevin Douglas Grant
At least 273 civilians have been killed by drones, yet the families of those lost still have no legal recourse
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